Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3194, Watson Earll, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
Bank
Earl, Watson
R. 3194.
CONTENTS

"Watson Earl 33.832
Watson Earl
NY
act 7 June 32
Agent
J. Gould
Julius
NY
Hon. Chas. Morgan
NY

State of Louisiana Is age locality. I - On this 4 th day of July 1878 personally appeared before the Court of common Pleas of said County Watson Bull a resident of the town of Lake Charles said County aged twenty four years who being first duly sworn according to law with the oaths made the following decla- ration in order to obtain the benefit of the act "to provide for the relief of the poor" That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the month of March 1876 in the Company commanded by Capt. Burke in the Regiment commanded by Col. Eddy for a term of three years. That at the time of his enlistment he resided in Louisiana in the parish of Calcasieu and enlisted at that place. That he was engaged from the time of his enlistment until about the month of October of the same year with a part of the American Army in the Siege of Fort Cum- berland in Louisiana aforesaid. That the American Army during the time had possession of all the country around said fort for some distance and were engaged in besieging & reducing the Garrison in said fort. That from said besieging Army parties were constantly sent out to Scout through the country. And also upon the water to take & destroy the enemys small vessels in the vicinity of the fort. That in the said month of October the said applicant was sent out in one of said expeditions. And when said party returned they found that the enemy had come in force to relieve said Garrison and had driven the American Army from the ground and then remained in

possession of the same. That said party were taken prisoners & the applicant among the number. That he the said Earl was taken to Wallkill & detained there as a prisoner of war until the month of October 1777 when he was exchanged & released from confinement. That said term of service & imprisonment was one year & seven months & a half as he believes. That immediately after his release he removed to the town of Cambridge then in the County of Albany in the State of New York as he believes. That after his said removal he belonged to the Company of militia commanded by Capt Brown & Lieut Isaac Paine in Col Whitcomb's Regiment. That in the summer of 1778 as he believes said Company was divided into clubs, to serve in the war, each club was to serve a tour of two weeks. That he the applicant had two brothers belonging to the same Company each in a different club. That in the month of August of the year 1778, he the applicant was called out in his club and performed a tour of two weeks at Fort Ann, under the said Lieut Isaac Paine. When said tour ended he continued to serve another tour for one of said brothers of two weeks & when that was ended he continued on & served another tour for said other brother as a substitute. That said brother's names were Nathaniel & Robert Earl. That his service at this time was six weeks, two weeks for himself & two weeks for each of said brothers as a substitute under the same officer stations at the same place. That in the month of September 1778 as he

Relieving a call was made by the Governor for a draft of a company of men from Said Regiment to Scout around Lakes George & Champlain for Indians & Tories. That the officers of Said Regiment first beat up for volunteers but failed to get any. That about this time Capt David Dodge & Lieut Aaron Smith had returned from Service, and being experienced in the business of scouting a number of Said Regiment offered to volunteer for one month provided they could be under the command of Said Dodge & Smith. This was so arranged and the applicant and others accordingly volunteered to serve one month under said officers and so draft was made that he the applicant entered Said Service in this manner and continued scouting around Lakes George & Champlain for Indians & Tories a term of one month and was then discharged & returned home. That all his Service was performed as a private. That he had no field officers in the two last terms. That he was born in Vermont aforesaid in the year 1762 and has no record of his age.
That since the said war he has continued to reside in the state of Vermont. That he never received a written discharge from service. That he has since said war received five hundred acres of land as a bounty for his Said Service which Said land is situated in the north east part of the state of Vermont in the County of Clinton as he believes. That he was acquainted with Col. Maxfield & Colonel Sharp in the Said war but does not remember the particular officer that

By early, when he became very faint with the then But about the month of Aug 1777 as he believes he again had a turn of six weeks at a time then as before two weeks for himself & two weeks as a substitute for each of said mother under said left. Some of his reason under two or three days before his death was taken He finally relinquished all claims what ever or anything except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any state or territory
I were & Subscribed this day  July  1836  Wm  Watson  Beard
affirmed 1836 Wm ...
J. W. ... Judge of ... County ...
... Darius ... Judge of the County of ... ... was a revolutionary soldier & served as he state ... J. W. ... Judge of ... County ...
I ... Clerk of said Court & of the Court of Common Pleas then hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the matter of the application of Watson Beard for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this day of June just above written
State of ... Clerk of said Court ... ... that ... ... before whom the foregoing affi- davit was taken, and who has sworn to the same to
the foregoing ... was on the day of the date thereof ... of the county ... further that the ... ... in the ...

State of New York, S. I do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Watson Baker the petitioner in the ongoing petition... that he is now in very full health and quiet of mind... in my opinion is in all to attend to court. (1830) August 23rd 1836. J. H. H. Master of the Supreme Court of the United States.
I George Howard a clergyman residing in Hambleton in Seneca County and William H. Gifford residing in the same town do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Watson Baker who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be twenty seven years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion. Sworn this 31 day of July 1858 before me George Howard William H. Gifford
I a justice of the peace do certify that George Howard who has signed & sworn to the above certificate is a clergyman residing in Hambleton in Seneca County and that William H. Gifford who has also signed the same is a resident of the same town & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit.

The Clerk of Ossipee
Chas. Morgan R.R.
Byron Maine Nov. 10 1890 Auburn N.Y.
Page 292

State of New York, S ts I, Clerk of a County of the State of New York do hereby certify that the within copy is a true copy of the original thereof, which is now on file in my office and of the whole thereof. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 14th day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
By William Lloyd George Member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydfil and many other offices. With many of the 1811
Dear Francis Cook,

State of New York County of Onondaga ss. On this 21 st day of April 1840 before Agree J. Mills gave me the following of the force of which finally surrendered to General Burnside & Brant who was in said County aged eighty eight years who being duly sworn, says that he is an elder brother of Watson Brant who now resides in Saugerties in the County of Ulster, and lived at home with said Watson Brant in Nova Scotia in the time of the Revolutionary war. That he well remembers that in the spring of the year 1777 (about the first of April as he believes) the said Watson Brant enlisted in Nova Scotia into the Company commanded by Capt. Brant and in the Regiment commanded by Col. Coke. That he before  at the time of  when  he said Watson when he enlisted that said Watson went and was stationed with said Company (Regiment before besieging Fort Cumberland in the Province of Nova Scotia now New Brunswick) and continued to serve there until some time in the fall of the year when in a sally made by the enemy from said Fort said Watson Brant with others was taken prisoner and as he deponent understood taken to Halifax and delivered a prisoner of war until about the first of August 1778 when he was exchanged and discharged from imprisonment.
That he deponent  saw said Watson Brant a number of times whilst he was in service in the siege of said Fort and knows him to be in said service
Deponent further says that he deponent was at Boston when said Watson Brant was brought in and discharged from imprisonment and met him there and conveyed him from Boston to Cambridge in Washington County.

in this State in his wagon. He Dependent having removed to the State of New York after said Watson was taken prisoner.
That the Dependent had received intelligence informing him of the time when said Watson would arrive in Boston, which made the reason why he went to meet him.
Dependent further says that he knows said Watson well to be the identical Watson that who received pardon of the State of New York as a Broadside Refugee. Dependent further says that after said Watson came to Washington whereby he was frequently in service in the Militia in a last tour of two weeks each usually, was in a tour under Capt Samuel Hodge a tour of one month, but Dependent is unable to state the number of such tours then performed with any great certainty except that during the course of about nine months in each year until the close of the war he said Watson well performed his regular tour of service of two weeks each, about two tours in a season in an average and Dependent thinks that said Watson's service in the Militia including said monthly tour was not less than five months. That said Watson when so in service belonged to Capt Brown's company of Militia in Col. Whitaker's Regiment and was stationed most of the time at Fort Ann. That he Dependent lived in the same neighbourhood with said Watson and was well acquainted with his service as above set forth.
And further Dependent saith not knows the day & year }

first above written before me & read for all my own beliefs justice of the cause
I certify that I am well acquainted with Thomas Merrill who has made the foregoing affidavit and that he is a man of good character and is a man of strict integrity and is a man of remarkable sound mind & memory for a man of his age & that his testimony can be relied upon as true & correct
Dated the 18th day of April 1840
Thomas Merrill Justice of the Peace
A. Gorder

State of Indiana } Steuben County } ss Nelson Earl of the town of Osceola in said County, being duly sworn says that he is one of children of the late Watson Earl late of Osceola County N.Y. that his Father made an application for a pension, and died leaving no Widow That this deponent has a direct interest in applying for the pension due his Father the aforesaid Watson Earl.
Sworn and Subscribed
Be ore me this 20 th day of August 1857 } Nelson Earl Philip B. Lobdell
Justice of the Peace
Know all men by these presents that I Nelson Earl of the town of Town & County and and state aforesaid, one of the children of Watson Earl deceased do hereby constitute and appoint George C. Ames Esq. of Washin- gton City & C. my true and lawful attorney and for me and in my name to prosecute my claim for a pension due my Father at his decease, hereby confirming what he may lawfully do in the premises Dated August 20 th 1857
} Nelson Earl
State of Indiana } County of Steuben }
Be it known that on the 20 th day of August 1857 personally appeared before

The subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, between Nelson Earl to me known and acknowledged the fore- going power of attorney to be his act and deed
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above written
Philip B. Loddell Justice of P. ex
State of Connecticut New Haven ss. I, Secretary of State do hereby certify that the within copy of the within original is a true copy of the same and that the same appears to the full of the foregoing instruments was at the date thereof a duly qualified Justice of the Peace for said County and that the same is a true and correct copy of the same and that full faith and credit are due all his official acts throughout the United States and that it are full signature with the name written such Justice and with the signature thereto to be his true and correct signature
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Anson this 20th day of August A.D. 1851 Selah H. Fowler Clerk

1. Book 33.332
Paterson County
let to Ben L. Morgan 26 Nov. 1860 do do same 3 April 1860 do do same 18 July "
A. Couca 82 of 36 8/4 Oct 35.
Set 4 to Arny Dec 22/51. J Lunkin Jny 31 1864 }
3140

Nelson Earle N.Y. Act 32 Suspended Com room for Col Lurapkin
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
P. O.
Nelson Earle
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

To be received and refuted to Therese Scamperle, S.C. Paris, July 30, 1889.

Geo W. Bruns Setting and repairing
H. G. Smith Esq. Hoboken N.J.
8 1/2 x 11 letter to Mr. ... 22 Feb 1872

War Department Pension Office Sept 5 1861
Sir
The papers relating to the claim of Nelson Garrison for a pension, accompanied by the report of the Department, in which some objections as to form of the application are pointed out. It appears from the statement that the claimant received bounty, and for his revolutionary service, is so the evidence that he was entitled to benefits may be found at Albany and some evidence will be required in establishing his claim to a pension in the event of the June 1832. He should apply a sufficient reason for delay. He should comply with the application for a pension.
I am Respectfully Yours Affectionately Geo. W. Crump
14 Grand Ave New York N.Y.

Watson Earl
Oct 13
Miss F. - Salem Mass
W. H. - Salem Mass

Auburn Oct 7 1885
202
Some time ago I received a letter signed "Gordon Freeman" under date of Sept 9 1885 saying that the papers relating to the claim of Watson Earl were therewith returned accompanied with the regulations of the department in which some objections as to form are pointed out.
In answer permit me to say that nothing but the said letter filed in the usual form of a small letter has yet come to hand. The papers & regulation have not been received and I presume are still in your office. It is your design to send them please send them to me.
I am respectfully Yours etc sent
G. Gordon
Hon J. L. Edwards

William East
W. E.
William East
W. E.
W. E.
W. E.

Mr Tumpkin
Sir I wish you to examine the claim Watson Earl of Oswego County N.Y. I have been for a long time expecting to hear from Woodward or Ames in this case but do not, Ames said I thought that Woodward could aid us in establishing this claim but since I concurred with his proposal he has not made a report, this was some time last winter I think
C Babcock

Wash. D.C.
March 18 th 1890
Dear Sir,
For the kind of a warm the colored people & when the letter to me very respectfully Yours & Charles H. Morgan

Mar 23 1840.
My
J. L. Richards Esq.
Pension Office
Washington
Hon Ch. Morgan H. R.

House of Rep.
March 21 st 1840
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir
I enclose an additional paper in the case of Watson Earl an applicant for a Pension.
Very Respectfully.
Yours & Christopher Morgan.

July 18. 1840
to J. L. Edwards Esq. P. O. Box 100 Washington D. C.
Dear Sir,

House of Rep. July 11 th 1840
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir:
I enclose additional testimony in the case of Watson Earl, proving farther lience, Have the kindness to examine it and give me an answer.
Very Respectfully Your Obedt Servt. Christopher Morgan.

Washington Sept 6. 1857 James E. Heath Esq. Sir,
Enclosed you will please find Power of Attorney in the Case of Watson Earle an applicant for a pension under the act of 7 June 1832 from New York. I ask the privilege of examining the mss on file in your office in support of his Claim
Very Respectfully Your Obedt Servt Asa C. McMeikens

Sept 1, 1836
N.Y.
Miller
Rev. J. Miller Conesville N.Y.
Esopus N.Y.

State of New York Auburn Aug 27 1836
Sir Enclosed I send an application for a pension. You will please examine it & send me the result of the examination If his name shall be found on the roll I presume there will be no difficulty
Very Respectfully Your obed Servt D Gould
Genl L. Totten

Hen C Morgan The Congress Washington D C

State of New York Secretary's Office
I certify that on the 27 th of February 1790 Letters patents were issued to Watson Earl for two lots of land in the Tract situate in the county of Clinton in this State set apart for the Canadian and Nova Scotia Refugees by laws of this State the said two lots containing together Five hundred acres - the said Watson Earl being a Refugee from Canada or Nova Scotia.
Arch d Campbell Dep Secretary
Albany March 17. 1840

Athens March 19 1840
My dear C
Enclosed I send you a certificate in regard to Watson Earle having made said as a Nonresistance refuge
Please place the for certificate with the other papers
Yours Respectfully
J. D. Gould
Rev. C. Morgan

State of New York Cayuga County
to Watson Earl an applicant for a pension under the act of June 7 th 1832 hereby makes the following declaration supplementary & in addition to the declaration heretofore made by him. That he was enlisted as a continental officer and as he always understood was a continental soldier and therefore needed no certificate of a clergyman.
He further says that the reason why he did not make an earlier application for a pension was that he had understood and supposed until about the time of making said application that his claim could only be proved by two officers and that his said claim could not be allowed without such proof. That he did not become informed of his error until a very few weeks before his said declaration was made. He further says that in Sept 1838 he left the State of New York & went to Indiana to spend some time with his children. That his return has been delayed by sickness of his said children & that he returned about the middle of last June when he returned to his former residence.
Sworn this 29 th day of July 1859 before me A. C. Munroe Justice of the Peace
Watson Earl
I certify my opinion that said Watson Earl is a man of truth & veracity
A. C. Munroe Justice of the Peace

New-York State, } ss. Cayuga County, }
I, WILLIAM RICHARDSON, Clerk of said County, certify that 60 Hunsper Esq. was, on the 29 day of July 1839 a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly qualified: And that I know his hand writing, and believe the signature on the annexed instrument, purporting to be his, is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County, and set my hand this Second day of March 18 40
William Richardson Clerk